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  “Are you mad at me?” she whispered to Ace.

  Ace reached out and stroked her jaw to her chin. He clenched it, tilting it up toward him.

  “Concerned, not mad. Your door should always be locked, even when expecting company. You’re too beautiful. Too precious to risk anything bad happening to you.”

  “I was in a rush to get inside. To make sure that things were neat,” she said and then looked around the bedroom.

  His hand fell from her chin, Briar gripped her hips, and then she swallowed hard.

  “I…I wasn’t sure what you would want. I…panicked.”

  “What do you mean what we would have wanted? We came here to see you. To be with you and spend time together,” Corona added. He took a seat on the bed next to Briar. Cliff and Danny moved closer, and they surrounded her.

  She looked at Corona. Tears rolled from her eyes. “I’m making a mess of things. I’m not…”

  “Not what?” Danny asked.

  “Perfect, the way you deserve.”

  “Sweetie, you are perfect,” Briar told her.

  She shook her head. She played with the button on his shirt.

  “What happened? What got you so upset? What were you thinking about before we got here and then when we arrived?” Corona pushed.

  She didn’t look up. She continued to play with Briar’s buttons and then smoothed her palm up and down his chest. “I thought about him.”

  Briar clenched his teeth, glanced at his brothers, and saw the anger in their eyes.

  “What made you think about him?” he whispered and caressed her back.

  She lifted her head up to look into Briar’s eyes. “He had rules, Briar. Rules I had to follow. Some were the same, some changed, and if I didn’t react fast enough and comply, I suffered.”

  “What specifically were you thinking about that set you off?”

  “Not knowing what to do or where to be when you arrived. What you would want and desire. Like me kneeling on the floor by the bed, naked, or in just panties, or lying on the bed, or hands on my thighs, head down, I didn’t know, Briar. I didn’t know,” she said, shaking her head, and more tears fell.

  He cupped her cheeks, his heart raced, and the hatred for the man who did this to her came full circle in his head.

  “We aren’t him, baby. We aren’t that monster. We don’t expect you to serve us. We don’t want a slave, a mindless, controlled sexual object. We want a beautiful, sweet, sexy, caring, smart, giving woman like you. With your baby blue eyes that draw us in and put us under a spell, and your sensuality, your acceptance of being our woman because you want to be, not because it’s forced. You’re in control, Amber,” he said to her, and she shook her head.

  “No.”

  “Yes.” He pressed his lips to hers, and then he slowly lowered back to the bed. Her eyes widened. She looked at the others.

  “Take from me, Amber. You’re in control. I belong to you as much as you belong to me,” he told her, and he laid his arms by his side.

  She lifted her one hand to her mouth and stifled a cry. Tears rolled down her cheeks. She glanced at the others.

  “Nothing is forced in a ménage relationship. In a relationship based on equality and love, affection, that deep connection we feel every time we’re all making love. We’re in this together, Amber. He has no power here. He doesn’t exist with us. He is in the past. He has no power, but our love for you, our desire, and our connection with you is most powerful of all,” Ace told her.

  “We love you, Amber. That’s the difference right there. We love you,” Cliff said to her, and then cupped her cheek and leaned down to kiss her. When he pulled back, he gave her a wink.

  “My brother is waiting for you to love him. Let go of the past, the pain, the fears, and know we are your protectors, your lovers, your friends, and we would never hurt you ever,” Cliff said.

  Briar held her gaze and absorbed the feel of her body on top of his, straddling his hips. He inhaled her scent, could feel her warm, damp panties against his stomach, his shirt lifted slightly when he lay down. She used the palms of her hands to caress up his chest. She lowered down and stared into his eyes. He licked his lips and then glanced down as her breasts poured from the top of the dress. She was still shaking. A little less, but still fearful, and it upset him, but he remained focused.

  “You’re a beautiful angel. I’m yours,” he said to her, and she pressed her mouth to his.

  She kissed along the corners of his mouth, then to his chin Ran her palms up to his neck and then cupped his cheeks and deepened the kiss. She rocked her hips, and when she pulled from his mouth panting, he felt overwhelmed with love and desire.

  “Touch me, too, Briar. Help me to forget the pain. To be free.”

  He slid his hands up under her dress and pulled it up and off her. She raised her arms up to assist, and the dress fell to the bed, only for Cliff to place it onto the side chair. She wore only panties, and she lowered down, began to undo the buttons on his shirt, and then removed it from Briar’s body. She kissed every scar on his chest, his ribs, and sides. She was thorough, and his cock felt super hard, desperate to thrust into her depths and mark her his woman. She needed this control. She needed slow, or so he thought. She lifted up and moved off him. She started to undo his pants, and he wiggled free. Behind her, Ace slid her panties down and off her and then stepped back. She looked over her shoulder.

  “Together. I love when we make love together. That’s when I’m free, when I’m happy, and when he can’t get into my head,” she told Ace.

  He nodded, and then leaned over kissed her shoulder and squeezed her hips.

  “You lead, baby. You lead,” he said and undressed.

  Briar raised his arms above his head as Amber eased down to explore his cock. Ace stood behind her, naked, arms at his side.

  She gave direction. “Touch me, Ace.”

  “Where, baby? How? What do you like? Where do you want me?” Ace asked and leaned forward to kiss her neck and bare shoulder.

  “Everywhere, Ace.” She looked at the others. “Cliff, Corona, Danny, please. I need all of you. I need you,” she told them. His brothers undressed, and then Ace slid his fingers to her pussy from behind, just as she lowered her mouth to Briar’s cock and began to suck him down.

  * * * *

  Danny stood beside Ace. He stroked Amber’s hair and focused on her beauty, on helping her to heal and promising himself that he and his brothers would love her unconditionally and help her get through the abuse and the pain. Later tonight, they would get the answers they wanted and the name of the man who hurt her.

  She was moaning and rocking her hips.

  “I love the sounds she makes,” Ace said.

  Smack. Smack.

  He smacked her ass.

  “Oh fuck, that makes her suck harder. Fuck, I need in,” Briar said.

  “Together, baby. Me, Briar, and Danny, and then Corona and Cliff,” Ace told her. Danny gave her hair a tug, and she released Briar’s cock. Ace lifted her up and placed her onto Briar.

  “Oh.” They both moaned, and she moved on top of Briar, his cock deep in her cunt.

  “Corona.” Ace said his name, and Corona reached for his jeans and pulled out the tube of lube. He tossed it to Ace.

  “We’re going to fill you up. Being inside of you, claiming you, loving you, makes us so very happy, baby,” Ace said to her and suckled against her neck as he rocked against her ass.

  “Really?” she asked and exhaled, panting for breath on every one of Briar’s thrusts.

  Danny cupped her cheeks.

  “Really,” he said and pressed his lips to hers.

  When he eased his lips from her mouth, he brought her head to his cock, and she complied with enthusiasm, taking his dick into her mouth and beginning a series of motions. Her head moved up and down, and her hips back and forth over Briar’s cock. The scent of her shampoo filtered through the air and he inhaled deeply.

  Ace squeezed lube to his fingers a
nd slowly pressed them into her asshole. She came and shook right after.

  “Sweet Jesus, that is fucking hot. She’s coming already. She knows she’s our woman and we’re her men. Her body knows, too,” Cliff said and caressed her ass and back.

  “She sure does. She’s perfect. Here I come, honey. Here I come,” Ace said and slowly began to slide his cock into her tight asshole. When he nudged and nudged and was finally thrusting into her ass, they all moaned, and his body shivered with desire, with love for Amber and a deep need to make her happy and make it so that she never felt pain ever again. With every thrust of his cock, every moan and counterthrust, the desire and love grew deeper and deeper.

  “I’m coming in that sexy ass. Release me, baby,” Danny said to her, and when she did, she cried out another orgasm, and then Briar came.

  Ace thrust two more times, and he followed. They held themselves in her a moment, and then released her to Danny and Corona

  Ace pulled out, and Corona lifted her up into his arms and kissed her deeply, tenderly as she wrapped her legs and arms around his neck and shoulders. He fell backward to the bed, and Danny moved in behind her.

  * * * *

  Danny slid fingers of lube to her asshole and then replaced fingers with his cock. He felt desperate, and so did Corona as he thrust up into her cunt and she rode him. The two of them were thrusting into her as Cliff caressed her back and her ass.

  “I’m next, baby. I’m going to fill you up and mark you my woman. You’re going to ride me, take from me, and claim me all yours,” Cliff told her.

  Smack. He spanked her ass, and she cried out her release. Danny followed, shocked at the depth of his emotions and how much he loved this woman already.

  * * * *

  As soon as Danny pulled out of her ass, Corona rolled her to her back and pounded into her cunt. He then slowed his pace, cupped her cheeks, and thrust deeply, slowly, with their gazes locked. When it got to be too much, too emotional, he thrust faster again and again. Her luscious lips parted, her breasts pushed against his chest, and he growled low and thrust a little faster.

  “Mine. You’re mine and I’m yours,” he said. He transitioned to his back and gripped her hips.

  “Fuck me, baby. Take me. Mark me.”

  He saw her expression change, and she seemed shocked, but then she gripped onto his shoulders and began to thrust over his cock. She lifted her thighs up so her feet were flat on the bed, and she rode him, rocked her hips and ass, and the move made her big breasts sway and move. He slid a palm up to stroke her nipple and her breast. He pinched her nipple, and she moaned and gasped. More cream dripped from her cunt. Her blue eyes closed, and she came.

  “Fuck.” He thrust upward and came next.

  “My turn,” Cliff said.

  His brother’s blue eyes sparkled as he winked at her, cupped her cheeks, and kissed her hard on the mouth. She lifted up, and Corona moaned as his dick slid from her tight little cunt, and he watched her ass, gave it a slap as Cliff pulled her into his arms. She straddled his waist, and he brought her around to the edge of the bed and lowered her down. He caressed her skin from her hips up to her chest.

  “Tell me what you want. What arouses you, makes you happy, wild and free,” he said to her.

  “You do. Anything you do to me. The way you touch me, tell me how beautiful I am, how sexy, and look at me like no other woman, other person, matters but me in the moment. I love you inside of me. Your big, hard dick penetrating every hole as your hands grip my curves and you claim me your woman. I need you to be in control now, Cliff. I need to be taken by you any way you want. I get it now. I get it,” she said to him, and he smiled, thumbed her nipple and then tugged it.

  “In that case, hold on tight, baby. We’re going for a ride,” he said, and slid his cock into her pussy, glided his palms up her thighs, gripped her hips, and began to thrust into her.

  “Arms above your head the way you like it.” He tugged on her breast as he thrust his hips.

  “You know the difference now, don’t you? The difference between pain and pleasure? Between being submissive because it turns you on and you know you can trust us in that vulnerable state, right? It isn’t pain. It isn’t forced, and it doesn’t cause fear because we love you, and it all brings you pleasure,” he said to her.

  “Yes, Cliff, oh yes, yes,” she said, tilting her head back.

  * * * *

  Cliff was there already, but he wouldn’t come. Not yet. Not until Amber knew she came first. Knew they were real men, strong men who would put her first and love her fully. The sight of her right now, arms above her head, tits rocking, pussy glistening with cream was difficult to not come from. He lifted her thighs higher up against his hips and slid a finger to her asshole.

  “You like that? You like getting fucked in the ass?”

  “Yes. Oh God, Cliff, yes.”

  He lowered her down and kissed her, pulled his finger out and then thrust into her several more times.

  “I need you everywhere,” he said and pulled out, flipped her onto her belly, spread her thighs, and aligned his cock with her asshole. “I’m yours and you’re mine, forever.”

  “Yes. Yes. Oh God.” She cried out her release as he slid his cock into her asshole.

  It was on, and he knew he didn’t have many strokes left as he roared, thrust, grabbed onto her hips, and then glided his palms up her sides, up her arms, and then back down to her shoulders while he thrust and thrust into her ass until he grunted his release. He nearly fell over, but Danny was there, chuckling and holding onto him.

  “Nice,” he whispered to Cliff.

  Cliff chuckled, gently eased from her asshole, and began to kiss her everywhere he could. Ace appeared with a washcloth, and they cleaned her up. Cliff pulled her into his arms and laid her on the bed.

  “We love you so much, Amber. Do you know that? Did you feel it?” he asked.

  “Yes, Cliff. So very much I felt it. I love you guys, too. I’ll get better, and I’ll get him out of my head. I promise you,” she said to him, and he was shocked.

  He lifted up. His brothers had their pants on, and they gathered around her.

  “Amber, we need to know this guy’s name. We need to ensure your safety,” Ace said to her.

  She was quiet. “Do you have to? Can’t we just forget about him?” she asked.

  Ace reached down and stroked her jaw, his expression serious. “You know we can’t. He’s a threat to you and a threat to all of us and what we have. Tell me his name so my brothers and I can protect you.”

  “I don’t think you need to worry. My brother will take care of him.”

  “Your brother? The one who got you into the mess to begin with?” Corona asked her.

  “They will find him and take care of it. They promised me,” Amber said to them.

  “Well, you haven’t heard from your brother in quite some time. We’re in charge, so give us his name and let us do our thing to protect you,” Ace said firmly.

  “Amber?” he said her name again when she didn’t respond.

  “Charles Muller. He was in the military for years. He’s into a lot of different things. Scary things,” she whispered.

  Cliff caressed her hair. “We will protect you. Remember that,” he said to her.

  “I trust you, Cliff. I trust all of you, fully.”

  Her expression, the truthfulness in her tone and her eyes did him in, and Cliff knew she truly did trust them. Now they would need answers and to get everything they could get on this guy, so they could eliminate the threat, and end things once and for all. Amber needed closure and to be free. They were the men to help her.

  Chapter 9

  Danny was talking to Kyle when his phone rang. He answered it.

  “Hello?”

  “We have a situation,” his commander told him.

  “What situation?”

  “I got some information from Sommers. There’s a connection to Visado Lang and Manuel Forte. A recording of them talking to so
me guy in Dubai and another man. One we don’t know yet. I want the two of you to meet up with this investigative team, who apparently are the ones responsible for hunting these men down. They are in the area and taking care of something personal before they meet up to discuss the case and where it’s going. Tonight, seven o’clock at the Parisian. There’ll be men from an elite task force there to fill us in on the things we didn’t know but apparently were getting close to uncovering.”

  “Kyle and I are making some other connections, as well.”

  “Hold off on them, Danny. They’re allowing us to be part of this in order for us to stay out of it and not blow their investigation. You were right. It’s terrorist activities, and apparently someone is the middleman providing all this military weaponry and drugs to get into the wrong hands. We all want that individual.”

  “Yes, we sure do. We’ll be there at seven.”

  He ended the call and then filled in Kyle.

  “Well, I guess we’re done for now. How about that guy you were looking up earlier through the system? Who is he?” Kyle asked.

  “Someone I need info on, but it’s personal.”

  “Let me guess. An ex of Amber’s who is still in the picture.”

  Danny made a face.

  “Come on, partner. We’ve been friends for years, and partners since the academy. You and your brothers are in love with her, and actually making a commitment. What did the dick do?” he asked, and Danny trusted Kyle, so he explained. Kyle looked pissed off.

  “Your brothers want to take him out? I’ll fucking help.”

  Danny shook his head.

  “I would be lying if I said that option wasn’t discussed. We wouldn’t do that though. We just want to make sure he doesn’t show up here looking to mess with her head.”

  “What did you find out so far?”

  “Shit. Ace thinks that maybe Charles Muller isn’t his real name. Amber gave very specific details to his business and the house he lived in. She wasn’t sure of the exact location or address though. He was very possessive and controlling. Had her on a short leash and abused her.”